I think you misunderstand. Asterisk is a phone PBX that supports VoIP, it is
not a internet chat application like Vent or TS. No client is going to have
a GUI anything like Vent, the clients used will be so called softphones that
will dial the server. Channels are conference rooms in Asterisk, like office
phone conference systems. Moderation can be done, but again the clients will
have no GUI for this.
Asterisk can use TTS but not for what you want. People will need a mic (or
phone) to use the system. For clients you need a softphone, Kiax is a good
IAX softphone and X-lite is a good SIP softphone (or just google for "sip
softphone" or "iax softphone").
A phone gateway would be possible (and even totally free, but you can't get
free tollfree numbers). I wouldn't suggest trying to do this on your own if
you have little VoIP knowledge as the learning curve is quite large. If you
don't use a configuration GUI (which I think is a really bad idea) you would
have to write the dialplan logic by hand and configure the rest of the
system.
On 10/6/07, The Fearow <fearow00(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
In that case, I think i'm going to do with something like Asterisk. I
chose Ventrilo as its already popular and has a lot of options. Does
asterisk support channels, moderation, etc?
One other feature about Ventrilo that as far as I can tell would be more
difficult with something like Asterisk, is the TTS engine for users without
a microphone. It sounds decent (although for those poor SP1 users they get
Microsoft Sam), and allows users with no microphone to participate in voice
chat.
Could anyone provide some examples of good compatible clients that support
these features?
-Matt
Note: I also love the idea of a gateway from standard telephone, but we
probably wouldnt be able to do that. If we could it'd be a great way to
start a de Wikinews Hotline (see the main page of Wikinews).
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:08:18 -0400
From: gmaxwell(a)gmail.com
To: toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Exemption to third party software rule
On 10/5/07, The Fearow <fearow00(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I'd like to get an exemption to run a copy of Ventrilo
> (
http://www.ventrilo.com/index.php) for use as an
> alternative to IRC. For a start it will be for Wikinews, although I
intend
> to make it into a general Wikimedia server.
I'll make channels
available
that
pretty much align with the IRC ones.
I can answer any questions if necessary.
Ignoring for a moment whatever issue Wikimedia Deutschland may have
with someone running a VoIP server on equipment they own:
I think it's a bad idea to run a closed/proprietary VoIP service with
limited cross platform support.
If we want to do VoIP stuff we should use Asterisk, which I've
maintained before and wouldn't mind helping with. The challenge then
becomes making good client software recommendations, which is
something that I can't help with for windows/mac users. :) There are,
however, a lot of options.
Beyond the advantages of staying in the realm of free/open protocols
and software using asterisk has other advantages: It's very easy to
tie applications/tools into asterisk. For example, when I ran a demo
asterisk server for some Wikimedia stuff I setup an interface that
allowed you to listen call a 1800 number and listen to spoken
Wikipedia articles, and the interface only took a few minutes to
setup.
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